Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - How to get back to single boot after making it dual boot with Vista ?? http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - How to get back to single boot after making it dual boot with Vista ?? http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:20:25 GMT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:20:25 GMT Rev9 5 -5 -1 Coffeehouse - How to get back to single boot after making it dual boot with Vista ?? Hi,

I installed the beta version of vista available before sometime on MSDN, and made my computer dual boot (Windows XP was already there on c:\; vista was intalled on G:\)

Now, I want to remove the beta version of vista from the harddisk and freeup that space. My boot up menu shows me Vista and Earlier OS (which might live somewhere on C:\boot.ini - as per the legacy tradition.. but if I see the boot.ini, it says,
;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;

I tried looking at BCDEDIT.exe but could not find anything by which I can remove the Vista Entry safely  (and after that, i will format the g:\ where i installed the vista, i think that will clean it and thats what i want.. i can not take risk of putting my XP system at risk !!)

Any help appreciated !!

Regards,
Jigar

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Installing and uninstalling Vista Beta for dual-boot with XP

:OWarning: I didn't test it yet. Make a backup first of your XP partition.

Enjoy!

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jigarmehtamscit wrote:
Hi,

I installed the beta version of vista available before sometime on MSDN, and made my computer dual boot (Windows XP was already there on c:\; vista was intalled on G:\)

Now, I want to remove the beta version of vista from the harddisk and freeup that space. My boot up menu shows me Vista and Earlier OS (which might live somewhere on C:\boot.ini - as per the legacy tradition.. but if I see the boot.ini, it says,
;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;

I tried looking at BCDEDIT.exe but could not find anything by which I can remove the Vista Entry safely  (and after that, i will format the g:\ where i installed the vista, i think that will clean it and thats what i want.. i can not take risk of putting my XP system at risk !!)

Any help appreciated !!

Regards,
Jigar


http://www.vistabootpro.org/

used it on two pc's w/o any problems...

install, pick options, done.

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Thanks for the solution.

VistaBootPro is a very good piece of software. It shows BCDEDIT is so complex that some third party develops very good GUI tool to manipulate with it.

Anyways, it works for me.


]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250194-How-to-get-back-to-single-boot-after-making-it-dual-boot-with-Vista-/03aab55153ea4fcea9069dec00384336#03aab55153ea4fcea9069dec00384336 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:29:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/250194-How-to-get-back-to-single-boot-after-making-it-dual-boot-with-Vista-/03aab55153ea4fcea9069dec00384336#03aab55153ea4fcea9069dec00384336 Jigar Mehta 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jigarmehtamscit/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - How to get back to single boot after making it dual boot with Vista ??
jigarmehtamscit wrote:
Hey,

Thanks for the solution.

VistaBootPro is a very good piece of software. It shows BCDEDIT is so complex that some third party develops very good GUI tool to manipulate with it.

Anyways, it works for me.




yeah a tool like that should have been built to ship with vista, and like the pro networks tool it should install on xp for the same reasons....

Smiley

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